A. It enables portfolio decisions by capturing complex relationships among in flight programs

B. It allows management to track stakeholder benefits tied to value streams

C. It assists in tracking the achievement of strategic business objectives

D. It helps define how various business units relate to business stakeholders

A. The business is relatively monolithic, where redundancy is limited or understood

B. There is general agreement across business units regarding shared capabilities

C. A government agency is launching an initiative across multiple departments and regions

D. Most stakeholders have a shared perspective of the business with little discrepancy

A. Transformation of the underlying technical architecture, applying state-of-the-art technologies

B. Transformation of data, application, and solution architectures, in alignment with business process
models

C. Transformation of data and application architectures, in alignment with business architecture

D. Transformation of the data and application architectures, as dictated by IT best practices

A. Business process

B. Business unit

C. Capability

D. Value stream

A. Business architecture deliverables aligned to key consumption points within the operational strategy

B. Customer satisfaction goals aligned to future state value streams

C. Language that is concise and appeals to business leaders' strongest decision-making drivers

D. Business goals, timelines, delivery times, and skill sets

A. Omitted from the data architecture for being non-explicit

B. Translated into explicit information within the data architecture

C. Incorporated into explicit data already defined in the data architecture

D. Used to inform and refine services architecture mapping

A. Oversight rules, rewards and consequences

B. Sponsorship, principles, standards, quality and escalation

C. Decision authority and approval process

D. Decisioning methodology, tools and documentation

A. Processes and application systems

B. Organization and information

C. Application systems and information

D. Products and processes

A. Business architecture provides additional information to Lean Six Sigma work regarding process model
decompositions

B. Business architecture surfaces upstream and downstream impacts of Lean Six Sigma efforts across
business units

C. Business architecture serves as a prerequisite for establishing Lean Six Sigma value streams

D. Lean Six Sigma value stream definition is a prerequisite for establishing a business architecture

A. Automation level, process alignment and effectiveness

B. Effectiveness, impact and breadth of coverage

C. Efficiency, effectiveness and automation level

D. Efficiency, effectiveness and impact

A. Provides best practices for establishing a technical architecture deployment

B. Provides a frame of reference for articulating the scope of solution deployments

C. Establishes an agile requirements approach and methodology

D. Frames the data persistency approach used by a solution architecture

A. A course of action being executed or selected for execution

B. A technology deployment to improve automation

C. A business investment requiring capital funding

D. A large project that is outsourced to a third party

A. Enables laser-like investment analysis

B. Represents a business strategy

C. Serves as a starting point for a business model

D. Provides a comprehensive perspective on value analysis

A. Policy to business partner alignment

B. Policy to product mapping

C. Policy enforcement teams

D. Policy centralization

A. Improve overall product quality

B. Deploy a wide range of business scenarios

C. Streamline operational efficiency

D. Enable operating cost reductions